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An edition of Much Ado About Nothing (1600)

Much Ado About Nothing

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Unique Features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
Special Introduction to the play by the editor, David L. Stevenson, Hunter College

General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University
Special note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived Much Ado About Nothing
Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Charles Gilden, Lewis Carroll, George Bernard Shaw, Donald A Stauffer, W.H. Auden. Carol Thomas Neely
A new, comprehensive stage history of notable actors directors, and productions of Much Ado About Nothing, then and now
Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type
Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text
(back cover)

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Signet Classic
Language
English

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Paljo melua tyhjästä
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Much Ado About Nothing
2010 March 31, LibriVox
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado about Nothing
2009, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
1998 November, Project Gutenberg
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much ado about nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado about Nothing
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New York, USA

Edition Notes

US/CAN
CE 4512298

Series
The Signet Classic Shakespeare
Copyright Date
1989

Contributors

Editor
David L. Stevenson
General Editor
Sylvan Barnet

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
xxx, 186p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7577042M
Internet Archive
muchadoaboutnoth00shak_2
ISBN 10
0451522982
ISBN 13
9780451522986
OCLC/WorldCat
912450847
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0451522982
Google
2KVNrGC5
Library Thing
10259
Goodreads
627615

Work Description

Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity is shown to be little more than "much ado about nothing".

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Enter Leonato (Governor of Messina), Hero (his Daughter), and Beatrice (his Niece), with a Messenger.
added by Lisa. "first sentence."

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